How many guns ?

This is a discussion on How many guns ? within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Originally Posted by acparmed
I'll give my usual answer to this question. More than I need but not as many as I'd like.
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Before I privately sold them all to law enforcement officers who wanted them for Homeland Security purposes in enforcing the Patriot Act off duty because they were too dangerous for a mere civilian to own, I might have possibly owned something like 7 target shooting handguns, 1 duck hunting shotgun, and 4 deer hunting rifles for sporting purposes.

But that was years ago before I went to the state education center and got re-educated by the nice men in the white coats.

My chief asks all LTC (MA "permission slip" to own/use guns) applicants (new or renewal) for exactly how many handguns, rifles, and shotguns s/he owns. And if you are foolish enough to answer this, he inputs it to the PD computer. His excuse is that if they get called to robbery and face off a bad guy, he wants to know if the perp puts down one gun, might he have another one! Such BS . . . and I told him so . . . I said if you ever respond to my house, just consider them "armed and dangerous"!

A few of us have refused to tell him, so he meekly asked if "a few of each" was OK to put down. I said sure.

BTW, since ALL transfers (private or dealer) must be recorded with the state, the PD has access to all such info from 1986 onward (for dealer transfers and 1998 for private) that they can pull up on the PD computer from the state.

My suggestion (in all seriousness) is to tell NO ONE how many of what you own, or exactly what you do own! Let it be a surprise to your heirs!